What you describe here directly is not typical, IME.
Sure, you can often negotiate over salary and stock options, especially if you wanted a larger comp package you might argue for a couple thousand more shares or something.
I haven't heard of too many (well, ANY, really) successful cases of this direct sliding scale of some kind of 1:X trade of dollars for options.
Also, I would be very afraid of any management team that would even allow you to have 1% equity. The math just doesn't work. If an individual contributor is going to get 1%, what do the founders have? What do the investors have? They'd likely run out of shares to allocate to employees before they even finished hiring.
Without more detail, what you describe here starts to sound a little bit like an incompetent or inexperienced management team, and I'd proceed with caution.
Sure, you can often negotiate over salary and stock options, especially if you wanted a larger comp package you might argue for a couple thousand more shares or something.
I haven't heard of too many (well, ANY, really) successful cases of this direct sliding scale of some kind of 1:X trade of dollars for options.
Also, I would be very afraid of any management team that would even allow you to have 1% equity. The math just doesn't work. If an individual contributor is going to get 1%, what do the founders have? What do the investors have? They'd likely run out of shares to allocate to employees before they even finished hiring.
Without more detail, what you describe here starts to sound a little bit like an incompetent or inexperienced management team, and I'd proceed with caution.